New York City

New York City

Members of Manhattan's Community Board 7 yet again put car storage first when they shot down a modest request by residents of an Upper West Side apartment building to turn free parking into a loading zone for safer drop-offs and to reduce double-parking. Dwellers of the Astor condominium at W. 75th and Broadway asked the civic panel to back their push to repurpose just two spots at their entrance into a loading zone, to provide a safe space on the chaotic and busy corner.

The New York of the nineteen-eighties was, warily, a city in transition. The frightening "Taxi Driver" New York of the previous decade-steaming manholes, blackouts, riots-still hung over the town, but so did the potent downtown renaissance that had begun at the same time, stretching from punk music at CBGB to a still intact SoHo, where a genuine village of art reigned and the world crowded into 420 West Broadway on Saturdays to see what might happen next.

"He can see his lawyers, but otherwise he's alone," Aidala said. "He could end up like Tom Hanks in 'Castaway,' talking to a volleyball."

Manhattan detectives are on the hunt for the knife-wielding suspect who slashed two men on the Lower East Side early on Sunday morning. Police sources said the attack took place at approximately 4:10 a.m. on Jan. 11 at the intersection of Essex and Delancey Streets. According to law enforcement sources, a male suspect with a knife attacked two men. The motive for the assault is unknown and under investigation.

Authorities say at least one of the suspects has been brought to justice in the Friday afternoon incident that shocked local residents. The 17-year-old male suspect whom cops have not yet identified has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Sources close to the case said the suspect is believed to be the primary aggressor. The arrest came the morning after the NYPD released surveillance photos of two young men detectives were looking to question.

A 6-year-old boy is clinging to life after he was struck by a Hatzolah ambulance in Brooklyn Saturday morning, according to police sources. The ambulance driver was heading west on 52nd St. around 10:34 a.m., striking the child near 52nd St. and 15th Ave. in Borough Park, cops said. EMS transported the child to Maimonides Medical Center where he was in critical condition. No arrests were made.

New York City, which already provides free preschool for three- and four-year-olds, is a step closer to providing free universal childcare for two-year-olds. On Thursday, Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan for the free childcare program, which they said will start by focusing on high-need areas and then gradually expand to cover the city. The mayor said he expected about 2,000 children to be covered by the program this fall.

"When the elevator is broken, we need to stay home," said Aleksandra, 79, who uses a walker and asked that her last name not be used for fear of causing trouble with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which runs the complex. "I live five floors up, she lives third floor, he lives seven or eight floors," she said, nodding toward Valeriy Feldman, 85, who uses a wheelchair. Translating Feldman's words from Russian, Aleksandra added: "Every time, it's a problem for him."

When pundits discuss new Mayor Zohran Mamdani's affordability policies, they talk about the benefits to his base of young supporters. They imagine how the call for cheaper groceries and rent freezes will help 20- and 30-somethings navigating early adulthood and parenthood. But Mamdani's core message on housing and food prices applies just as much to older New Yorkers, and his affordability agenda can deliver for them, too. They cared for us, now it's our turn to care for them.

A New York City judge on Wednesday ordered a mental health evaluation for a Massachusetts woman charged in the unprovoked stabbing of a tourist changing her baby's diaper in a bathroom of Macy's flagship store in midtown Manhattan around the holidays. Kerri Aherne, 43, of Tewksbury, will be examined by mental health professionals to determine whether she's fit to stand trial, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.

They come as a group every time. We don't know if they will attack us or bring a weapon, so I'm scared,

An NYPD officer shot and injured a man armed with a sharp object inside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Thursday evening, according to police officials. Authorities said officers responded to a 911 call about gunfire near the hospital around 5:30 p.m. and encountered the man before opening fire. Officials said the man was in critical condition and that the investigation is ongoing.

New York runs on tight schedules that even the city's most iconic tree isn't immune to. If you've been telling yourself you'll swing by Rockefeller Center one day soon, here's your final nudge: the famous Christmas tree comes down tomorrow, which makes today the very last day to catch it in all its twinkly glory. After anchoring Midtown's holiday season since early December, the Norway spruce from East Greenbush, New York, is officially clocking out.

Two men were shot - one in the face and one in the back - inside a Brooklyn bodega on Friday, cops said. The victims, ages 24 and 26, were shot inside the deli on Flatbush Ave. near Newkirk Ave. in Flatbush around 2:47 p.m., said police. The older victim was still inside the bodega with a gunshot wound to the back when police arrived, a law enforcement source said.

From time to time, a piece of vocabulary comes along which the public didn't realize it was missing and soon enough can't live without. "Commie Corridor"-to designate the precincts of Queens and north Brooklyn overrun with youthful lefties-is one such phrase, a zippy addition to the city's lexicon of pop anthropology. Its sudden currency was the handiwork of Michael Lange, a twenty-five-year-old political analyst and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who used it in his Substack newsletter back in June, just as early voting in the Democratic primary began. Zohran Mamdani, Lange wrote, might just be able to win, if he could inspire staggering turnout in this "young and hungry" base; when Mamdani pulled it off, the New York Times published Lange's analysis, bringing the coinage to a wider readership.

The administration also announced it is working to finish Astoria's 31st Street bike lane, a project that a judge halted in part because Adams hadn't gotten the required certification from the FDNY and other agencies. "We are beginning the mandatory consultations and will issue the notices needed to restart the project, while also filing a notice of appeal of the court's decision," Flynn said in a statement.

Director Dan Garodnick informed Mayor Zohran Mamdani that he would be stepping down from the role "in the coming weeks," according to an email shared with staff earlier this morning, City Limits first reported. Under Gardonick, the agency passed the first major citywide rezoning since 1961-"City of Yes"-an effort to create more housing in every neighborhood amid a citywide housing shortage that has pushed rents higher.

On the night of Friday, Sept. 12, she had just finished a shift at the McDonald's on Astoria Boulevard and was relaxing in the rear yard of the home on 96th Street at around 9:20 p.m. when she realized Ray had entered the yard. Donovan ran into the home through a rear basement door when Ray caught up to her and allegedly shot her to death.

According to law enforcement sources, the despicable act took place inside the Polo Grounds Towers near 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem on Jan. 7 at around 8 a.m. when an elevator inside the public housing complex became stuck. It is unclear on what floor the incident occurred. Police said the man, unknown to the young victim, entered the broken lift and immediately exposed himself without saying a word.

Straphangers will face service changes across much of the New York City subway system when traversing the five boroughs this weekend, according to the MTA. Only the F, M, Q, 1, and 6 trains, along with the Franklin Av and Rockaway Park Shuttles, are unaffected by changes from late Friday night through early Monday morning. Most other lines will see a slew of reroutes, skipped stops, and express to local switches over the first post-holiday weekend of the year.

If New Yorkers are known for anything, it's our intensity. Which means this time of year is a real push-pull between the ways we all deal with city life and our perpetual quest for self-improvement (for at least the first few weeks of every new year). And that energy is clearly carrying over into our resolutions, according to a new analysis of Google Search Trends by BetMGM Casino.

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Where I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we saw this cycle where landlords and bankers and policymakers had driven up the value of real estate using speculative financial capital, the housing market crashed, and then the solution to that was just a different private equity firm coming in and owning the buildings," Weaver, 37, said in a Dissent magazine interview published last winter. "This cycle fueled waves of gentrification in Crown Heights.